Andleeb Abbas

2016 was a leap year. More than the 29 days in February, 2016 made its presence felt by terror attacks in France and Germany, political shocks of Brexit in Europe and Trump triumph in US. The Rio Olympics were the highlight in Brazil and the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff on account of fudging budget […]

Who will bell the cat? Who will watch the watchdog? Who will monitor the monitoring body? Who will catch the one who catches others? Who will nab the NAB? These are some simple questions with tough answers. Difficult because it is an “autonomous” state institution that has selective autonomy; difficult because these are state institutions […]

Those who fail to learn from their mistakes, succeed to fail. The report is out. And it is saying things many may not want to hear. It will be debated, discussed, and probably dismissed by men in charge. Justice Faez Isa has meticulously gone into many details of the Quetta carnage and blamed the federal […]

Some things are ominously inevitable. PIA flight ATR PK 611 was not just tragic but traumatic, as it was the result of the years of neglect and conflict. How can any organisation that has been in losses for years ever be competitive? How can any organisation that has been marked with constant strife with the […]

Call it a snub or a slap, but Heart of Asia conference has given quite a few heartaches to many self-respecting Pakistanis. It was painful to see a man of the stature of Sartaj Aziz struggling not just to put his point of view across in the conference. But stuttering to justify the fiasco in […]

One can be a CEO and not be a leader; one can be a President and not be a leader; one can be a commander and not be a leader. That is a reality that is witnessed day in and day out. Leadership is the most talked about, yet the least understood and applied concept. […]

Age is just a number. Agreed. But then why is there a retirement age; why a science behind ageing; why medical and physical tests to qualify for certain professions. The answer may be true for certain professions, however, the profession of politics or the profession of heading state institutions are exempted from this pre-qualification. The […]

The martyr leaves a legacy and then returns on a higher pedestal. This is true for many heroic fighters who have done acts of bravery and survived. They then need to be garlanded and awarded and compensated. However, political martyrs are a different story. To save a bigger portfolio, a smaller portfolio is made a […]

If Brexit was a shocker, the US election was a stunner. Lost for words and logic, all the wise analysts on media and social media who had been creating one caricature after the other of Donald Trump are now feeling like Donald Duck that has seen all their predictions turn to an ugly duckling. Trump […]

Keep killing the flies, and they will multiply till you cover the hole from which they enter. If you substitute flies for spies that is what we are facing as far as national security issues are concerned. That leaks are the latest trend is understood; that leaks will make some famous and some infamous is […]